https://t.me/KyivIndependent_official/4401
Zelensky is going to make statement about Azovstal today.
You call a "democratically elected government" what was elected five years after the anti-constitutional coup in Kyiv in 2014 (Euromaidan), when 1 million protesters decided for 45 million Ukrainians how they should live, without holding a general vote. Protests against the illegal coup were brutally suppressed in Mariupol and Odessa in 2014. Acting President of Ukraine Aleksandr Turchynov initiated an anti-terrorist operation (ATO) against the DPR and LPR, and under this sauce the Kyiv authorities bombed their own population for several years, as a result of which 14,000 people died, including more than a hundred children. Residents of the republics unrecognized by Kyiv at first didn't want to separate from Ukraine at all, they just wanted to remain part of the country, but to be given the opportunity to speak and teach children in Russian. But after the brutal treatment of the people of Donbass by the Ukrainian government, they now perceive it as a sworn enemy. Euromaidan in Kyiv is as if Trump supporters in 2021 managed to carry out a coup d'état by capturing the Capitol, and then they would call their government democratic.
Considering Ukraine a democratic state is at least naive.
Under President Petr Poroshenko (2014-2019), the Prosecutor General of Ukraine was thrown out of office in exchange for $1 billion when his personality didn't suit the American government (read - Biden). This is direct proof that Ukraine is just a US puppet.
Zelenskiy is now banning opposition parties in Ukraine and, in fact, only one state-owned TV channel operates there.
In March, a member of the first Ukrainian negotiating delegation, Denis Kireev, was shot dead in Kyiv by SBU officers because he could support Russia. In April, Zelensky took hostage the head of an opposition party, Ukrainian citizen Medvedchuk, and wanted to exchange him for captured Ukrainian soldiers. I don't remember something like that in the history of democratic states, so that their citizens were forcibly captured, in order to be later exchanged for other soldiers of their own.
In Ukraine, they even publicly kidnap priests.
In the so-called democratic Ukraine, citizens *suspected of theft* - instead of taking them to the police - are tied to poles, doused with green paint, take off their pants and beaten. Is this the standard of democracy to which we should strive?
And Western propaganda is at least no better than Russian propaganda. German journalists deleted video with uncomfortable eyewitness testimony from Mariupol. The Spanish TV channel deliberately did not insert subtitles with a translation about how the Azov people threatened to kill civilians. The English "journalist" abruptly interrupted the broadcast when he had nothing to object to the Russian diplomat. The Italian magazine La Stampa published a photo from Donetsk, which was hit by a Ukrainian rocket for a photo from Kyiv. There are many more examples of how people in Western countries are being brainwashed.
You posted lot of shot and how surprising everything goes from perspective of pro-Russian narrative. And I'm not sure how seriously I can react when you're using some random Russian telegram with Z letter or Maria Zakharova as source. Ok, I'll try to answer some of your statements.Considering Ukraine a democratic state is at least naive.
Under President Petr Poroshenko (2014-2019), the Prosecutor General of Ukraine was thrown out of office in exchange for $1 billion when his personality didn't suit the American government (read - Biden). This is direct proof that Ukraine is just a US puppet.
Zelenskiy is now banning opposition parties in Ukraine and, in fact, only one state-owned TV channel operates there.
In March, a member of the first Ukrainian negotiating delegation, Denis Kireev, was shot dead in Kyiv by SBU officers because he could support Russia. In April, Zelensky took hostage the head of an opposition party, Ukrainian citizen Medvedchuk, and wanted to exchange him for captured Ukrainian soldiers. I don't remember something like that in the history of democratic states, so that their citizens were forcibly captured, in order to be later exchanged for other soldiers of their own.
In Ukraine, they even publicly kidnap priests.
In the so-called democratic Ukraine, citizens *suspected of theft* - instead of taking them to the police - are tied to poles, doused with green paint, take off their pants and beaten. Is this the standard of democracy to which we should strive?
And Western propaganda is at least no better than Russian propaganda. German journalists deleted video with uncomfortable eyewitness testimony from Mariupol. The Spanish TV channel deliberately did not insert subtitles with a translation about how the Azov people threatened to kill civilians. The English "journalist" abruptly interrupted the broadcast when he had nothing to object to the Russian diplomat. The Italian magazine La Stampa published a photo from Donetsk, which was hit by a Ukrainian rocket for a photo from Kyiv. There are many more examples of how people in Western countries are being brainwashed.
Maidan isn't first similar revolution. Orange revolution happened decade ago before Maidan. But you don't call it anticonstitutional because it doesn't probably fits your narrative.
ATO goal is regaining occupied territories and bring it back to control of Ukraine. You want to tell that intention of it is bombing and killing civilians. And like Russia would be completely not responsible for these deaths.
They're not banning oposition parties, they banned parties which have open pro-Russian views. And it happened only when full scale war begin. I think this move is completely understandable.
One state owned channel in Ukraine is big lie. "United news" is union of private and state owned TV channels. Here is more detailed article about it:
https://www.liga.net/politics/articles/uarazom-no-bez-poroshenko-kak-ustroen-telemarafon-i-kto-ego-kuriruet-ot-zelenskogo
And many channels aren't involved in it, including 5th Channels which belong to Poroshenko.
Here is official statement about Kireev:
https://gur.gov.ua/content/ukraina-vtratyla-svoikh-viddanykh-syniv.html
As said there, he and two other officers die while completing task. Articles about Kireev getting killed by SBU officers is
nothing more than rumour.
Medvedchuk hostage? C'mon. He was under home arrest, then ran away and was arrested. And like Russia didn't kidnapped any local politics of occupied territories, for example mayor of Melitopol. Exchsnge Medvedchuk for captured Ukrainians, I don't think it was bad offer.
These marauders tied to poles, it was first days of war when Ukraine was under big chaos. Suspected of theft or getting caught? And it's not just thefts, it's help for occupants, like making white marks for Russian rockets.
